[Ads-l] J. Swift qoute on reasoning "out/into"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

That citation looks great, Stephen. I was asked about this family of
sayings and located pertinent citations from Fisher Ames and Lyman
Beecher together with linkages to Jonathan Swift, Sydney Smith, and
others. But the citations I found for Swift were too late to provide
substantive evidence.

Garson


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
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> I encountered the following: "Jonathan Swift wrote, 'it is useless to attem=
> pt to reason a man out of a thing he wasn't reasoned into.'
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> Maybe this is a rewording of his:
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> "...freethinkers...are not be reformed by arguments offered to prove the tr=
> uth of the Christian religion, because Reasoning will never make a Man corr=
> ect an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired...."
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> A letter to a young gentleman, lately enter'd into holy orders. By a Person=
>  of Quality
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> Jonathan Swift
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> 1721
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> Stephen Goranson
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